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...including his own, on issues that come before the 15 remaining Politburo members. This might enable him to engineer an orderly transfer of power at the 25th Party Congress that is scheduled to begin next February. Current favorite to succeed him, at least on an interim basis: Politburo Member Andrei Kirilenko, who like Brezhnev is 68 and reportedly ailing...
Considered highly reliable, the Chronicle recently printed a list of all the items lifted by the KGB in a search of Physicist Andrei Tverdokhlebov's Moscow apartment (including a copy of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago and three issues of the Chronicle). In addition to news of Marchenko's fate, the Chronicle has a chilling, 70-page report written in Solzhenitsynian detail on the conditions endured by Russia's current political prisoners. Says Chalidze: "We don't use something unless we're absolutely sure it is real...
...fact that the Soviets may now seize opportunities offered by the miscarriage of Kissinger's Middle East mission can scarcely be credited to Soviet diplomatic shrewdness or sabotage. In fact, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko promised Kissinger that Moscow would not interfere with the Secretary's shuttle talks on condition that the U.S. would agree to resume the Geneva Conference. Instead, Moscow's Middle East policy has been characterized by 1) patience in advancing long-term Soviet interests; 2) prudence in avoiding any direct confrontation with the U.S.; and 3) providing massive arms aid to favored Arab nations...
...Israel and Egypt, the Secretary suspended his efforts to get a second-stage disengagement and returned to Washington to report to President Ford and Congress. The official statement said that Kissinger would "remain in close touch with the Co-chairman of the Geneva Conference," referring to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
India, which technically can also buy U.S. arms now, though it is unlikely to do so, reacted immediately and bitterly to the Washington move. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi spoke out against "Pakistan's new belligerence," and at week's end visiting Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko joined with New Delhi in a communique ex pressing "grave anxiety at the actions taken by certain quarters to step up the arms race." Indian Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan, who was scheduled to pre side with Kissinger over the first meeting of an Indo-U.S. Joint Commission that had been...